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BBCNEWS Afternoon Live February 21, 2020

Boxing fans have a rematch to look forward to. When we see each other, we shake hands. Not tyson fury and Deontay Wilder and that means no face off ahead of tomorrow nights big fight. You and i are terribly formal and polite. And chris has the weather, no storms. We will be taking a look at just how wet no storms. We will be taking a look atjust how wet our weather has been so atjust how wet our weather has been so far this winter and that has led up so far this winter and that has led up to the flooding we have seen. We will also be taking a look at the rather beautiful picture of the luna, shots you have probably never seen before. And coming up also coming up, a 10 year old Manchester United fan writes to liverpoolsjurgen klopp with a novel plan to stop them winning the league. They said there is a letter for you and it it had royal mail on the stamp and when i opened it it was jurgen klopp. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live, im martine croxall. A woman who supported the extremist Islamist Group Islamic State has admitted plotting to blow herself up in an attack on st pauls cathedral. Safiyya shaikh, a 36 year old muslim convert from hayes in west london, was arrested after an Undercover Police operation. Shes admitted preparing an act of terrorism by asking an undercover officer to supply bombs. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani is at the old bailey, in central london. Remind us of the background to this case. This has been a sudden plea of guilty today. Safiyya shaikh had been expected to go to trial later in the spring but this morning in a brief hearing she admitted preparing an act of terrorism by asking Undercover Police officers for bombs, one she was going to leave in a hotel and one would have been taken into a hotel and one would have been ta ken into st a hotel and one would have been taken into st pauls cathedral where she would have detonated it. This is a significant win for counterterrorism officers because the evidence she has admitted to today in effect means that had she not come into contact with these undercover officers and if she had come into contact with genuine is members and bomb plotters, she would have gone ahead with this case. She converted to islam many years ago, that was an entirely normal thing but at some point in the recent past she became a follower of the iso ideology, so much so that she stopped going to a local mosque where she had concerns that she may effectively be reported to be pleased by ordinary worshippers because of her extreme views. She then set about pushing extremist material online and it is there that she came into contact with these undercover officers who were trying to work out what she genuinely wa nted to work out what she genuinely wanted to do, whether she had a genuine intention to attack any particular target in the uk or beyond. It was at that point that she revealed that she wanted to attack st pauls cathedral. In one letter she said, i want to kill a lot, i would like to do a church, a daylight christmas or easter. A daylight christmas or easter. A day like. She sent a picture of st pauls cathedral saying i would like to do this point for sure. This was a key piece of evidence in this case. She followed it up by what prosecutors say was a recurrence operation where she visited the cathedral. She shared details with the undercover officers online and arranged to meet them in person. She that one of these offices, a female officer, was going to be able to give her one or two home made bombs to attack targets in london. When she handed over the bags for these bombs, she said she wanted to build these explosives and that was the Critical Evidence that caused the police to arrest her and caused these admissions of guilt today. Was anybody else involved in the planning of what she intended to carry out other than those undercover officers who she thought we re undercover officers who she thought were supportive . As far as we understand it, Safiyya Shaikh was acting alone in as far as this was her entire own plot. We do know about her is that she was part of a major pro Islamic State social media channel. She was there working with others across europe and in running that channel we know she was an administratorfrom evidence that channel we know she was an administrator from evidence that the bbc have seen about her background and it was there that she was encouraging others to carry out attacks. In particular in the netherlands where we understand that one of her fellow administrators was arrested by Counterterrorism Police there. A critical piece of evidence in this case was when she said to be british undercover officers that she was constantly going online and making threats and encouraging others to do the same and that this time she wanted to do it herself. Her intentions have been made clear by these guilty pleas. Her sentencing will be in may. Irish defence will have the opportunity to put forward some kind of extra nation to what her state of mind was. nation to what her state of mind was. Her defence. Then it will be for thejudge to decide was. Her defence. Then it will be for the judge to decide how dangerous Safiyya Shaikh, whose original name is michelle ramsden, how dangerous she is and what kind of prison sentence she could get and she could very well get a life sentence. Thank you very much. The mother of Grace Millane, the british backpacker strangled in new zealand, has told a court her daughter died terrified and alone. Gillian millane was speaking via a video link, at the sentencing of her daughters murderer. The man, who cant be named for legal reasons, was jailed for life, and will serve a minimum of 17 years. He killed the student only hours after they met, on the eve of her 22nd birthday. In a victim impact statement, Gillian Millane told the man his actions had torn a hole in her heart. Our correspondent, shaima khalil, sent this report from auckland. On the eve of her 22nd birthday, Grace Millane spent a night out with this man. But, shortly after these pictures were captured, he murdered her. The killer has been jailed for life, with a minimum of 17 years without parole. A suppression court order means we still cannot reveal his identity. Graces mother gillian said her daughter would always be her sunshine. She addressed the killer directly via videolink, saying he had ripped a hole in her heart. You walked into our lives and destroyed grace in the pursuit of your own sexual gratification. Her brother declan was also emotional when he spoke about his little sister. This is the last place grace was seen alive, she had earlier met the man on tinder and cctv showed them together in bars around the city, before coming here, to where he lived. Within a few hours, she was strangled in his room. During the trial, the jury heard that graces killer took intimate photos of her dead body. He later put the corpse in a suitcase, and buried it in bush land on the outskirts of auckland. The chief Police Investigator criticised the defence, for arguing that graces death was a case of rough sex gone wrong. Strangling someone for five to ten minutes till they die is not rough sex. If people are going to use that type of defence, all it actually does is repeatedly revictimise the victim, and the victims family. Campaigners say men are increasingly using the rough sex argument as a defence to try to get away with murdering women. In many cases we have looked at, defendants often have a history of really Serious Violence against women that the jury might not be aware of. We know of at least three cases where killers have used this defence and gone on to kill again, so we need to see this within a wider pattern of Sexual Violence against women and girls. Graces mother said no sentence the killer got would match a life without her daughter, but the case that shocked a nation and devastated a family has finally come to an end. Shaimaa khalil, bbc news, auckland. The British Embassy injapan says logistical problems have delayed an evacuation flight for holiday makers who were stranded on a cruise ship hit by coronavirus. The britons on the ship, the diamond princess, say theyre frustrated its taking so long to get them home. Laura bicker reports from yokahama. Just when the brits aboard the diamond princess thought it was all over, their plane has been delayed by almost a day. They had to watch passengers from other countries get their final medical checks and set off home while they remain in their cabins. Its just been one thing after another, and we can face the thought of 14 days, but then when you realise you have to wait for an evacuation flight its just been a bit nerve racking. The importance of this quarantine has become clear. Two elderly patients from this cruise ship have died, but there are questions about how effective that quarantine has been. Two australians who left here earlier this week and flew home have now tested positive for the virus. In south korea they are using every weapon at their disposal to combat an outbreak centred around this church. Daegu a city of over two Million People is at a standstill. The Defence Ministry has locked down military bases after several soldiers were confirmed with coronavirus. Two people have now died. There are over 200 cases and several hundred others say they have symptoms. Translation there are many fewer people here. Some car parks have closed and because there are so few people some shops have shut too. Translation a lot more people are Wearing Masks now. Its hard to find people who arent. The fear surrounding this virus has turned to frenzy in some places. Protesters in this ukrainian town attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus hit china. The president pleaded with them to show empathy. But there is still love in this time of coronavirus. In the philippines, over 200 couples got married at this mass wedding. They had to undergo Health Checks before the service. Even with the masks, its a welcome respite from the misery this outbreak has caused across the world. Laura bicker, bbc news, yokohama. Laura bicker reporting. The coronaVirus Outbreak could have a huge impact on world trade. Airlines say it could cost them more than £20 billion and theres growing concern for the Global Supply chains of a range of products from cars to smartphones. Our Business Correspondent theo leggett is here. Where is the impact being felt . We have to divided up into impacts which are already being felt and what could happen over the coming weeks. For example, know that travel in the Asia Pacific Region is really restricted which includes flights from europe, so British Airways for example is flying into shanghai or beijing and wont be we understand until mid april. All of that is taking its toll on the Airline Industry and the International Air transport Association Says it thinks that this year it will cost the industry £22. 6 billion. That is a big impact and that depends on the outbreak remaining centred in china. If it spreads further, the impact could be greater but already we are looking at a 30 reduction in demand in the Asia Pacific Region. For the Airline Industry that is an area thatis Airline Industry that is an area that is growing very fast and it means the first time in more than a decade it is expected that this year will see a decline in air transport which is normally growing year after year. Again in china, the car industry has been a big victim of all of this. Sales have fallen off a cliff. 92 down in the first two weeks in february. Basically, people arent going to be showrooms and most of them are shut anyway. That affects manufacturers like Jaguar Land Rover because they make a lot of cars for the Chinese Market will top it is one of their biggest markets so these are impacts we are already seeing. But there is a more severe potential impact which is that china is a manufacturer to the world so enormous amounts of finished products and parts are made in china, put on container ships and weeks later they arrive in europe and on our shores, they go into our shops and at the moment, the factories, many of them are still shut, they not opening up as quickly as people thought they would after the Lunar New Year holiday when a lot of activity was suspended, that means that the shipping companies cant fill their ships so a lot of the sailings arent happening. For example one company has cancelled a 50 sales and there are big vessels that are normally crammed with products from china and what this means is that businesses which rely on parts from china, again we can talk about jaguar land on parts from china, again we can talk aboutJaguar Land Rover, on parts from china, again we can talk about Jaguar Land Rover, they say if things dont improve, within weeks are going to be struggling. If you dont have parts, you cant make products put up theyre going to have to find part elsewhere, Jaguar Land Rover has said this week they are sending people to china who can bring things back in suitcases because they need than that badly. There is a possibility that finished goods, clothing chains, they might bea goods, clothing chains, they might be a shortage of those. Even if all that the factories in china resume production today, we would still probably see some kind of problems in the next few weeks because it does take several weeks for those goods to leave the chinese factories and arrive on our shores and at the moment, there arent as many out there on the ocean is normally there would be. And this is all assuming that, as you say, it says centred on china and asia . Yes, what people are saying at the moment is that there will be an impact but it could be relatively limited. It is what they call a v shaped a downturn so you see a drop in activity and then it picks up again quickly but the issue is that that depends on the outbreak remaining confined to southeast asia, particularly china but if there are signs that it spreads a lot and we are already seeing this outbreak in south korea, if it expands through the region than the disruption will be greater, potentially a magnitude greater so thatis potentially a magnitude greater so that is what people are worried about. If things stay as they are now, the Health Authorities get a grip and the virus stop spreading, thenit grip and the virus stop spreading, then it will be a limited turndown but if it does spread and gets out of hand, then you have a problem. Thank you very much. Youre watching afternoon live, these are our headlines an Islamic State supporter admits plotting to blow up st pauls cathedral. Safiyya shaikh was arrested during a Police Undercover operation. The mother of Grace Millane the british backpacker murdered in new zealand tells a court her daughter died terrified and alone. More frustration for british passengers stranded on a quarantined cruise ship injapan, as their flight back to the uk is delayed. And in sport. Enough is enough. Tyson fury and Deontay Wilder wont face off at their weigh in in las vegas later. Organisers dont want a repeat of wednesdays news conference, when fury and wbc world heavyweight champion wilder pushed each other. Liverpool will be without captain Jordan Henderson for up to three weeks. He picked up a hamstring injury during their Champions League defeat to Atletico Madrid on tuesday. And theres a shock in australia as the womens t20 world cup starts. The hosts and defending champions are stunned by india, who won by 17 runs in sydney. Ill be back with more on those stores after half past. The Food Standards Agency says there are now around 2. 4 million cases of Food Poisoning every year in england, wales and Northern Ireland up from an estimated i million in 2009. The increase is being blamed on the growing popularity of takeaways and eating out. On the growing popularity lets speak to the chief scientific advisor with the Food Standards Agency, professor guy poppy, hes in southampton. Thank you forjoining us, interpret these figures for us if you would because it looks like an enormous increase in Food Poisoning cases. |j think i would like to reassure the public. The actual total number of infectious intestinal disease which is things like the sickness and diarrhoea that we are talking about hasnt changed in facts. What is interesting is that of that 18 million cases, 11 million of them we actually dont know what causes them and a lot of that is human human transmission. What this work has done is to be able to show that more of the cases that we originally thought can be associated with food and that is why we have gone up to the 2. 4 million cases will top that doesnt mean there has been

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